San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1887-11-10
THE SEVEN CONDEMNED MEN.
ONLY ONE, PARSONS. BORN IN
AMERICA.
General w. II. Parsons OF Norfolk, Va.
Tells OF His Brothers. Careers.
Once Secretary Of the Texas
Senate.

| NoW IOrh WOrlu VI uu iuttTVleW Will
General w. III. Parsons, brother o
the condemned anarchist, in reply t,
interrogations, on the 18th Of Sep
tember last:
"My brother, the only American
among the condemned anarchists
was born in Montgomery county
Ala, June 20, 1S4S, and is therefor,
in his fortieth year. His grandfather
was major-general in the Revolu
tionary war, and his grand uncle los
an arm at the battle of Bunker Hill
AT ~ years of age my brother enter
ed The Galveston News office, but OF
the breaking out of the war, at the
age of 13, he joined Confederate
company, the Lone Star Grays, par.
ticipating in many actions and as.
sisting in the capture of Genera
Twiggs. He later became member
of my brigade and nm excellent caval-
ry scout, serving under me until the
war ended, when he was IL years OF
oge.
"He edited the Waco (Tex.) Spec
tator in 1868, and was married to O
talented and beautiful Mexican lady
in 1872 Mt Austin, Tex. Two child
rem are the result of their union. In
1870 he was elected use@etary of the
Texas senate, and the following year
he was appointed deputy collector OF
revenue. Going to Chicago in 1873,
he resumed his trade Of compositor
on the Times, and in 1876 joined the
socialists. He has been president OF
the Trade and Labor association for
three years. He has been nominated
for alderman three times, for con-
gress twice and for sheriff and coun-
ty clerk once each.
cat the national convention of the
socialistic labor party, held in ALE
gheny, Pa, in 1874, he WIS nominat-
ed for president of the United States,
but the age requirement, if nothing
else, would have prevented his cleo
tion. At the time of his surrender
to the court he was the editor of the
Alarm. My brother is a philosophi-
cal anarchist and claims the gift of
prophecy. He has never counseled
revolution, but has prophesled it. In
his words addressed to Mr.. Powderly
from the Chicago bastile July 4, 1856,
he said:
"Whether we live or die, the So
cial revolution is inevitable. The
boundaries of human freedom must
be enlarged and widened. The sew
enth' century was struggle for re-
ligious liberty. the eighteenth for po-
litical equality, and in this century
mankind is demanding economic or
industrial freedom. The fruition of
this struggle means the social revo-
luton. We see it coming; We pre-
dict, we hail it with Joy. Are we
criminals for that?
PARSONS A PHILOSOPHICAL ANARCHIST.
''As am an old-tim Jeffersonian
democrat, frequently expostulated
with my brother on the idea involved
in the word anarchy. His reply to
me, with the bars between us and the
shadow of the scaffold hanging over
him, was: i anu not revolutionist
per Sc. Revolutions are not made by
agitators, and prophets are the crea
lures of wrongs inflicted by the priv
ileged few and their tools. We do
not seek to make revolution, we sim
ply see it coming. We predict it.
Am l a criminal for that?'
II would interpose that the people
administer the corrective for existing
evils through the machinery OF the
ballot To this we would reply:
The people will so attempt, but be
only measurably successful. The
vested wrongs of the privileged class
in the hands of a meager
minority will never be relinquished
without coercion. Witness our late
civil war.
81 often pressed my brother for an
of the term anarchism as
meant and believed in by him. HIS
reply was: 'Philosophic anarchy is
the very antipodes OF anarchy as de-
fined by capitalism. Webster defines
anarchy as without rulers or govern
ors, and as disorder and confusion.
The latter is clpitalistic anarchy;
philosophic anarchy is a condition
rulers or governors invested
With authority to dictate to others
against their will
ACCUSING WALL STRICT BROKERS.
There is no pretense that my
brother or any one Of the condemned
men threw the bomb. They are all
condemned a. supposed although 1
hot proved accomplices. for there can
be no accessory without a principal. /
md the PRINCIPAL remains yet IN
Known The circumsiantial evidence
strongly points 30 an agent Of the
Sew York Stock exchange, who,
Pinkertons merceDaries, /
NED to break up the eight-bOur
BY charging the bomb
.broTing On the leaders q the labor
On Arfl =, 1856. toe
Ser York Tines SAYS
Tie strike o1estio1 is q course